New Delhi. The Allahabad High Court has given permission of dyeing on the outer walls of Sambhal’s royal Jama Masjid. Along with this, the court said that lights can also be installed without damaging the wall of the mosque. A civil revision petition was filed in the High Court for permission for dyeing and painting by the Masjid Committee. The single bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Aggarwal gave the verdict saying that I am only allowing for whiteness on the outer walls of the mosque and this is only to settle their application. Along with this, Justice Aggarwal reprimanded ASI.
Earlier, the court refused to allow painting paintings on the basis of the ASI report. The ASI said in its report that there is no need to paint dyeing on the mosque walls. But now the court has accepted the demand made in the Civil Revision Petition of the Masjid Committee. The court has said that under the supervision of ASI within seven days, dyeing and lightening work should be done on the outer walls of the mosque. The judge asked ASI lawyer Manoj Kumar Singh about his report.
On this, he told that according to ASI, the Masjid Committee has painted painting on the walls of the mosque for many years, it has damaged the walls. The judge got angry and questioned what ASI had been doing for so many years. Let us tell you that a petition has been filed by the Hindu side in the district court regarding the Sambhal Shahi Jama Masjid, claiming that there was a first Harihar temple which was made a mosque during the Mughal rule. There is a dispute in Sambhal about this, although now the court has also considered Jama Masjid as a disputed structure.
